Golf: Geoff Ogilvy has explained why the 11th at Royal Troon is arguably the hardest hole in the world.
'The hardest hole in the world' | 01:04101 years after Royal Troon first hosted The Open, the famed Scottish course again plays host to the year’s final major.
It begins with surprising ease, a chance for players to enjoy the sea views with the wind in their favour. If you don’t, you get punished. Harshly. Tiger Woods discovered that in 1997, when he triple bogeyed.The Open at Royal Troon always challenges even the best – like Tiger Woods during 1997.Then, like any good links course, players turn around and head for home – and the course really begins to bite.“You just have tough hole after tough hole into the wind,” he added. “Lots of gorse, out of bounds on the right a few times.
Just how hard is it? Ogilvy called it a “really, really scary hole. Definitely a candidate for one of the hardest holes in the world.”Yet things hardly get any easier as the players close in on the clubhouse – and the finish, the par-four 18th hole, is another punisher. That hole, as is customary for the Open, will be lined with grandstands on both sides and should make for a pressure-cooker finish to the weekend.“It’s always a tough way to play golf when it just keeps getting tougher and tougher and tougher all day.”
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